NURSING (ENGLISH)
Bachelor	TR-NQF-HE: Level 6	QF-EHEA: First Cycle	EQF-LLL: Level 6

General Information

Nursing is one of the oldest health professions that emerged with human existence. With its education based on health sciences and social sciences, it is a health care profession consisting of the science and art that is most needed in the protection and development of the health of individuals, families and society in all areas of life, in the improvement of the disease, in the adaptation and rehabilitation of the disease.
In the historical process, nursing started with the role attributed to women in the First Ages, helping the sick and the needy, and was carried out within the body of religious organizations in Europe in the Middle Ages. Because most of them are religious officials, it is seen that nurses are expressed as "angels" and the nursing profession as "Holy".
In addition to the care and treatment of diseases, preventive measures were taken and preventive health practices were carried out in Islam. The first women's community to care for the wounded and sick was also established by Muslims.
In our country; It is stated that there are women who care and treat in the Ottomans. At the same time, it is seen that the soldiers in the Ottoman army were given nursing training.
During the Crimean War (1853-1856), Selimiye Barracks was turned into a hospital, with the increase in the number of wounded soldiers of the Allied states. Known for her sensitivity to helping people, Florence Nightingale came to Istanbul and took care of the wounded British soldiers in Selimiye Barracks Hospital. Florence Nightingale opened the world's first nursing school in London in 1860, with the awareness that nurses should go through a formal education program based on her knowledge and experience during this care process.
Participating as the Ottoman Delegate to the Red Cross Conference held in London in 1907, Dr. As a result of Besim Ömer (Akalın) Pasha's meeting with Florence Nightingale and understanding the importance of the nursing profession, studies on nursing began in Turkey. In 1911, he provided the participation of women from well-known families in Istanbul to the "Voluntary Nursing Course" which lasted for six months. Münire İsmail, Kerime Salahor, Safiye Hüseyin Elbi and other nurses who completed the courses opened in Istanbul and Bursa were wounded for the first time during the Balkan Wars (1912-1913), the Dardanelles War (1915-1916) and the First World War (1914-1918). They took care of the soldiers.

With the Admiral Bristol Nursing School, which was opened for the first time in 1920 under the Admiral Bristol Hospital, and the Red Crescent Nursing School, which was opened in the Republican Period (1925), formal education in nursing was started; In 1939, the first Military Nursing School was opened under the Ministry of National Defense; In the following years, the first of which was in 1946, many Health Colleges (Health Vocational High School) were opened under the Ministry of Health and Social Assistance.
Ege University School of Nursing, which started education in 1955, is the first nursing school opened at university level in our country and in Europe. Later in 1961, Hacettepe and Istanbul University Florence Nightingale Schools of Nursing were opened, leading to the transfer of nursing to the university level. Master's (1968) and doctoral programs in nursing (1972) were also started for the first time at Hacettepe University. First of all, with the faculty of Istanbul University Florence Nightingale School of Nursing in 2011, the process of faculties in nursing started.
The International Nursing Council (ICN), founded in 1899, represents the professional organization of nursing in the world, and the Turkish Nurses Association, which was established in 1933 and restructured in 1943 in our country.
Every year, "World Nurses Day" is celebrated on May 12, the birthday of Florence Nightingale, and Nursing Week is celebrated in Turkey between May 12-18.
Atlas University is a foundation university with public legal personality, established in 2018, subject to the provisions of the Higher Education Law No. 2547 on Foundation Higher Education Institutions. Undergraduate education is given in the department, where the basic competencies of the International Council of Nurses and foreign programs are taken as an example.
The Nursing Program within the Faculty of Health Sciences was opened in 2020 and started education on October 5, 2020 with a total of 60 students, 9 of which were full scholarships and 51 of which were 50% scholarships.